- skip - Brewer’s

Cobbler

.

A drink made of wine (sherry), sugar, lemon, and ice. It is sipped up through a straw. (See Cobbler’s Punch.)

“This wonderful invention, sir, … is called cobbler,—Sherry cobbler, when you name it long; cobbler when you name it short.”—Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, xvii.

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Coast Men of Attica
Coasting Lead (A)
Coasting Trade
Coasting Waiter
Coat
Coat of Arms
Coat of many Colours. (Gen. xxxvii. 3)
Coats, Hosen, and Hats (Dan. iii, 21)
Cob (A)
Cobalt
Cobbler
Cobbler
Cobbler Poet (The)
Cobbler’s Punch
Cobbler’s Toast
Cobham
Cob-nut
Coburgs
Cobweb
Cock
Cock and Bottle

Linking here:

Crepidam
Ne Sutor, etc
Sutor